Pereira Maintains

for the time being

cops and robbers

laissez-faire, laissez-passer

one bend after another

hemmed and hawed

if you’re going to base your writing on the reasons of the heart, you’ll run up against some awfully big obstacles I can assure you

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth